Another local scholarship question

Olymom
Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:29:16 +0000

You should be able to email the school’s finaid department and get clear guidelines. Write so you have a record of their response (which you don’t if you call). You can still do this in the “theory mode” as in “if my daughter gets an award this summer, how does that work?” . If they respond “might affect” then zip right back and ask them to specifically lay out the guidelines. Keep after them. You get to play the “happy but concerned parent” – and it is their JOB to explain this stuff to you.

Be nice. Be persistent. Even better, ask the granting group if they gave this scholarship to a kid in recent history that is now attending your kid’s college. Nothing like knowing what the college did with that first kid! Good luck.